Book Titles

The Effective Executive
The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

By Peter Drucker

Year Published: 2017
ISBN-13: 978-0062574343
Categories: Effectiveness, Executives, Leadership

141 Quotes Found

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The Effective Executive:

How can you possibly expect others to perform at the highest levels without first expecting that of yourself?

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The Effective Executive:

Do what you’re made for, yes, but then get better and better; eradicate weakness, yes, but only within strength.

208

The Effective Executive:

…what gets measured gets managed.

218

The Effective Executive:

Those who make the most of meetings frequently spend substantially more time preparing for the meeting than in the meeting itself.

233

The Effective Executive:

…if meetings come to dominate your time, then your life is likely being ill-spent.

236

The Effective Executive:

…the most effective people find the patterns within the chaos.

240

The Effective Executive:

The presence of an ever-expanding to-do list without a robust stop-doing list is a lack of discipline.

256

The Effective Executive:

Get better people, give them really big things to do, enlarge their responsibilities, and let them work.

267

The Effective Executive:

A great teacher can change your life in thirty seconds.

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The Effective Executive:

Management is largely by example.

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